Название: Rabaul 1943-1944: Reducing Japan’s Great Island Fortress (Osprey Air Campaign 2)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 73 Mb
Язык: English

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Rabaul, or starve the 100,000-strong garrison out. Instead the US began an innovative, hard-fought two-year air campaign to draw its teeth, and allow them to bypass the island completely.